Thanks for that, Teatro. But you know what? The two are very closely related. After all, I did refer to the young Stephen Dedalus/James Joyce as a 'Buddha-to-Be.'
The Omphalos Cafe I was wondering: Is Omphalos (aside from the mentions in Ulysses) at least a small tongue -in-cheek reference to navel gazing, a somewhat snide term for deep thinking?
Out for my post publication beer. But no, I'm definitely uncomfortable with the notion of 'deep thinking.' I suppose it's more of a navel/hub around which day to day phenomena revolve type thing, but mostly it's evocative and yet undefined, sort of anything anyone wishes it to be place.
Hhmmm. Don't really know, in truth. Maybe five, six. The first time was when I was in my twenties, over thirty years ago now. Extremely tough slogging then. Got pretty close to nothing out of it. But then, was open to all the background thinking and ideas written about it. "What's the point of that?" I thought to myself, the book or all that writing and deep deconstructionism. Only with time and reading so many other things did it start to dawn on me: "Holy shite, that's in Ulysses. Something's going on that no one seems to be talking about." Now I place it up on the highest shelf because were we open to things being written at the very highest level, on history and Life and Buddhism, one can turn back to Ulysses and discover it there too. Joyce was doing amazing things, to me was literally a modern day Buddha, and yet academia completing and totally misses that element. Which to me says more about ourselves than about Joyce. And, even that point, about academic shortsightedness, is right there in the book too! Amazing. So, when you get down to it, the real point of these videos is not to present myself as 'smart', or 'intellectual,' but to share my astonishment when I make some sort of breakthrough or discovery into myself, Life, Zen or Buddhism, and then realize that Joyce had got there before me and put it down in his greatest works, Ulysses and the Wake. Anyway, there you go, thanks for the question.
And I thought you had high aspirations when you set out to confidently discuss Ulysses, but updating the Buddah, nicely done.
Thanks for that, Teatro. But you know what? The two are very closely related. After all, I did refer to the young Stephen Dedalus/James Joyce as a 'Buddha-to-Be.'
The Omphalos Cafe I was wondering: Is Omphalos (aside from the mentions in Ulysses) at least a small tongue -in-cheek reference to navel gazing, a somewhat snide term for deep thinking?
Out for my post publication beer.
But no, I'm definitely uncomfortable with the notion of 'deep thinking.' I suppose it's more of a navel/hub around which day to day phenomena revolve type thing, but mostly it's evocative and yet undefined, sort of anything anyone wishes it to be place.
Hhmmm. Don't really know, in truth. Maybe five, six. The first time was when I was in my twenties, over thirty years ago now. Extremely tough slogging then. Got pretty close to nothing out of it. But then, was open to all the background thinking and ideas written about it. "What's the point of that?" I thought to myself, the book or all that writing and deep deconstructionism.
Only with time and reading so many other things did it start to dawn on me: "Holy shite, that's in Ulysses. Something's going on that no one seems to be talking about." Now I place it up on the highest shelf because were we open to things being written at the very highest level, on history and Life and Buddhism, one can turn back to Ulysses and discover it there too. Joyce was doing amazing things, to me was literally a modern day Buddha, and yet academia completing and totally misses that element. Which to me says more about ourselves than about Joyce. And, even that point, about academic shortsightedness, is right there in the book too! Amazing.
So, when you get down to it, the real point of these videos is not to present myself as 'smart', or 'intellectual,' but to share my astonishment when I make some sort of breakthrough or discovery into myself, Life, Zen or Buddhism, and then realize that Joyce had got there before me and put it down in his greatest works, Ulysses and the Wake.
Anyway, there you go, thanks for the question.
is Campbell's quote "in the history etc. " a tautology ?
Sorry MM, I have no idea what you're talking about. Sounds a little schoolish and I'm all about getting beyond the schools.
@@theomphaloscafe3501 i knew that would be your answer without even having to think about it ; too much. i think i am getting the hang of zen ?